GitHub

As anyone who has been keeping tabs on my work will know I’ve recently started making use of GitHub (https://github.com/jamesfed) but was quite surprised today when logging in and I received the message below.

Your account has been flagged.

Because of that, your profile is hidden from the public. If you believe this is a mistake, contact support to have your account status reviewed.

In contacting support I received an email less than a few minutes later stating that this was an error by their spam detection system and that the account was reinstated.

If you are running (or use) the Sympa Mailing List but also use Windows PowerShell then you may want to be aware of PSSympa which recently went v1.0 on GitHub and the PowerShell Gallery.

In this release we have…

Functions

Get-SympaLogin (to login and get a session cookie – the result of which is used with all other functions)

Get-SympaMailingListMember (get the members of a list or list(s))

Add-SympaMailingListMember (add a member(s) to a list)

Remove-SympaMailingListMember (removes a member(s) from a list)

Test-SympaMailingListMember (checks to see if someone is a Subscriber, Owner or Editor of a list)

Sync-SympaMailingList (based on the contents of a reference CSV makes changes to the membership of a list)

Samples

How a CSV storing credentials might look (samplecredsfile.csv)

How a CSV that is used to Add/Remove members in bulk to/from a single list (samplememberslist.csv)

How a CSV that is used with the Sync- function would look (samplesynclist.csv)

Super Awesome Features

Credentials can be stored in a CSV to avoid them being typed in as part of a wider script

Pipeline support for members in lists

How to get it

The PowerShell Gallery is the best route to get your hands on the Module, see this link – https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/PSSympa for the full details in short though you should only need to run the following command at your PowerShell prompt (assuming you are running a recent version of PowerShell) to install the module on your PC.